Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
N.B.: This page includes symposia and conferences for graduate students and those not solely for graduate students that seem to be either of special interest or are especially welcoming to you. Also note that while a regrettable number of sites below have not updated their information many of the events listed below are annual events. Contact them if you have any questions.
Rationale: the gold star 
is used to
mark new postings accepting proposals until the date in bold type. After that
date has passed, the gold star is removed and the conference becomes "to attend." After the the
conference is over, I usually leave up a brief notice if it is an annual event. Please note that
these conferences are sorted by location of the conference.
Note on Location: The conferences on this page are being held in British Isles, ANZAC, Europe, and Everywhere Else. Hope this re-organization makes things a little clearer!
Architecture and Urban Design
Classics and Archeology
Italy
Medieval Topics
Renaissance and Baroque Topics
Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
Film, Movies, TV, and Media
Popular Culture
Women, Men, and Gender
All Other Topics: U.S.A. and Canada
All Other Topics: British Isles, Europe, ANZAC, and Everywhere Else
All Other Topics: British Isles, ANZAC, Europe, and Everywhere Else
ART AND PSYCHOLOGY
28 July-2 August, 2008 11th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, to be held in Helsinki, Finland. "Perhaps no realm of scientific inquiry experienced such rapid conception and development, or provoked such a wide range of cultural and popular responses, as did the emerging field of psychology during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From Christian Wolff's Psychologia empirica and Psychologia rationalis (1732-1734) to Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), works by early modern European scientists formed the foundation for exploration of mental and behavioral processes. Inspired by ideas about personality, emotion, perception, cognition, and relationships, countless visual artists absorbed the notions of this fledgling science. Some artists read and understood the work of specific psychologists; some adopted broad notions of interiority; others used their artistic media to explore their own personalities or those of their acquaintances. From Henry Fuseli to Felicien Rops, such artists explored the unconscious workings of the human mind, from self-expression to the revelation of universal truths. Abstracts were due 15 December to session co-chairs Michelle Facos (mfacos@indiana.edu) and Janet Rauscher (jsrausch@indiana.edu). Participants will be notified by 15 January.
>ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS CONFERENCE [UK]
2 - 4 April 2009. University of Leeds. Go to the link to find the list of Calls for Papers. Always includes a Student Session. Deadline to apply was 14 April 2008. Check the Web site for details.
ASSOCIATION OF THE HISTORY OF GLASS
Held 7-13 September, 2003. Not exactly annual, but apparently at least every now and then. Plus, a unique society. Check the Web site for more information. [Well. it looks like there are several conferences upcoming for 2008! Check the Web site.]
AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ANZASA)
July 4-7, 2008. "The association holds a biennial scholarly conference in even numbered years, usually in the AVCC common week break in April or July. Organized around a theme, the program includes keynote speakers from the United States. Postgraduate students are encouraged to participate, and a workshop for them is held on the day before the conference proper, led by senior scholars." Check the Web site.
CEILING PAINTING AROUND 1700: Public and Private Devotion in the Towns of Central Europe and North Italy
16-18 October 2008 Slovenia, Ljubljana [sic]. "The conference will discuss, on interdisciplinary level, the function, manifestations and context of sacred ceiling painting in towns and cities. Besides art historians, also researchers in other branches of the humanities are kindly invited to participate, particularly those from the fields of theology and ecclesiastical history...Abstracts were due 15th April 2008 to Barbara Murovec, France Stele Institute of Art History, Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Box 306, Novi trg 2, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia, e-mail: (BaMurovec@zrc-sazu.si)." See the Web site for more informatio.
CENTER FOR ICELANDIC ART
Just had to post this--lots of stuff going on, including the link to "Iceland's first and only online art magazine".
COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES : CONFERENCES
Links to conferences in all areas of European studies.
CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
6-7 September 2008 School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK. "...The aim of this interdisciplinary symposium is to explore ways in which we can seek to understand what it meant to be creative in the early modern period...We welcome proposals for papers from an interdisciplinary field, including cultural historians, art historians, dance historians, theatre historians, musicologists and literary scholars. Details of the call for papers are given below, and on the University of Manchester's website [above--please see]. Proposals should be sent via e-mail to: (rebecca.herissone@manchester.ac.uk) AND ALSO POSTED OR FAXED to:
- Dr Rebecca Herissone
- Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
- University of Manchester
- Coupland Street
- Manchester M13 9PL
- fax: +44 (0)161 275 4994
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORD AND IMAGE STUDIES: WORD, IMAGE AND CENSORSHIP
7-11 July 2008 Paris, France. "These panels seek papers that examine texts or images that have been accused, prosecuted or prohibited for moral or political reasons from the seventeenth century to the present. Papers may examine topics within a specific historical, religious or political context or analyze theories and shifting definitions of morality or propaganda. Papers might consider the following questions: How did artists and writers confront, subvert or negotiate legal restrictions that defined the illicit or transgressive? What was the interaction between censored material distributed in the popular domain and uncensored works considered literature and fine art? Papers might also address how texts and images challenged the efficacy of legal definitions, while the law, in turn, made more vivid the efficacy of the subversive and forbidden. Papers should address censorship in relation to word and image studies and the conference theme "Efficacy." Proposals in French and English will be considered.
Proposals (300 words maximum) to Lauren Weingarden lweingar@mailer.fsu.edu WERE DUE 15 October. For more information about IAWIS/AIERTI International Association of Word and Image Studies / Association Internationale pour l'Etude des Rapports entre Texte et Image and the 2008 conference, "Efficacy / Efficacit?" in Paris, France (July 7-11, 2008), go to the Web site [above].
INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION
6-8 August 2008 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theme: SPACE, TIME and IMAGE. "Scholars, researchers and practitioners of the field wishing to submit a paper are invited to send an abstract of 200-300 words DIRECTLY to panel organizers. The organizers' e-mail addresses can be found on the detailed list of more than forty panels with specific topics and abstracts that are seeking submissions. Presentations may be made in any of the three conference languages: Portuguese, Spanish or English. Submission deadline: May 15, 2008." For more information, please see the Web site.
INTERSECTIONS
April 2nd - 4th 2009 Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. "The 35th AAH conference will...focus on the intersections (connections, linkages, overlaps) of art history with different disciplinary, methodological, political and historical spaces. Three areas of intersection might be identified: between areas of convention and innovation within the discipline; between art history and its adjacent fields of inquiry, display and production; and between the subjects and objects of interpretative and historical practice. In this light, intersections can be understood as the convergence, however temporary or in-process, of art history's divergent values and practices...Please send session proposals to (aah09@mmu.ac.uk.) Proposals should include a session title and abstract (maximum 250 words) and full contact details of the session convenor(s). Deadline for the submission of session proposals was 14th April 2008. [Please see the Web site for more information.]
[ISLAMIC ART] ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT CONFERENCE
6-9 July, 2008. Cambridge, UK. "...The Islamic Manuscript Association* would like to invite submissions for papers for its annual conference on topics related to the study of Islamic manuscripts...bstracts are accepted in English and Arabic. You must specify the title of your paper. The deadline submissions was March 28th, 2008. Late proposals will not be considered. The duration of each conference presentation is 30 minutes including ten minutes of questions and answers. Please send your abstract (maximum 500 words) along with your curriculum vitae to Natalia Viola by e-mail: (natalia@islamicmanuscript.org) or by post to the [address on the Web site]."
[ISLAMIC ART] REPRESENTING ISLAM: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
5-6 September 2008 University of Manchester, UK. "We invite single-paper and full-panel proposals for the conference organized jointly by the Universities of Manchester and Surrey and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Britain. We anticipate proposals on topics emanating from the fields of Political Communication, Communication Science, Media Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Social Psychology, Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics, and Modern Languages. An edited volume based on selected conference papers will be published. Panel and paper proposals were due January 31, 2008 to these two e-mail addresses:
- Oxana.Poberejnaia@manchester.ac.uk and
- Shishir.Shahnawaz@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
[ISLAMIC ART] SYM0POSIUM ON COLOR IN ISLAMIC ART
2-4 November 2009 University of Cordoba (Spain). "The organizers Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom invite prospective
speakers to submit a CV and a 250-word abstract on any aspect of this theme, ranging from the symbolic use of color to its
practical applications in painting, tilework, and the like...Abstracts must be received by 1 August 2008. Approximately 12
papers will be selected, and successful applicants will be notified by 1 November 2008. Speakers will be expected to present an
illustrated 40-minute talk and a publishable text of approximately 5000 words. The sponsors will cover all travel and lodging
expenses between the speakers' home and Cordoba and will provide a generous honorarium (upon acceptance of their written text) as
well as a copy of the published proceedings. Further information will be available on the Symposium website.
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POSTMODERN: A RELEVANT PARADIGM IN THE ARTISTIC FIELD
May 30th-31st, 2008 Auditorium de lINHA [SIC] 2, rue Vivienne - Paris. "Postmodernity, postmodernism,
postmodern...[SIC] These terms appeared in the 1960s in architecture and took up in the plastic arts at the end of
the 1970s, without being precisely defined. Postmodernity, sometimes understood as a period of disenchantment which
bears witness to the crisis of universality, was associated in the artistic field with the dissolution of
utopias specific to Avant-garde movements. At the beginning of the 1980s, the "return" of figurative painting through
Trans-avant-garde, Neue Wilden or Bad Painting, was then interpreted as the relinquishment of a teleological reading
of history that had been spread by Greenbergian modernism. It seemed to coincide with the end of "metanarratives" that
Jean-Franois Lyotard described in The Postmodern Condition, first published in French in 1979. The concept of Postmodern, which
sprung from that loss of landmarks, has been given numerous and diverse interpretations, thus quickly becoming highly problematic.
The questions this concept raises therefore need to be addressed, in a comparatist approach, in order to understand if it was or
can still be relevant to describe certain artistic phenomena since the 1960s. Indeed, if the term was soon to be strongly challenged,
and even sometimes abandoned, in France - as in Germany and Italy -, things seem to have been different in the United States
where the concept of postmodernism is sometimes considered as a genuine paradigm.
"Abstracts were due January 25th to:
danesi@free.fr, katia.schneller@free.fr, and
helene.trespeuch@laposte.net.
Organisers: Fabien Danesi (Villa Mdicis, Rome), Katia Schneller (Paris I -
Sorbonne) and Hlne Trespeuch (Paris I - Sorbonne
[Tim Buckley]
[PRINTING] SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF
PRINTING IN THE LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
25-27 SEPTEMBER 2008 Leipzig, Germany. "This Symposium will cover the history of printing and publishing in all
Middle Eastern languages and scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Berber, Coptic, Georgian, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Turkish,
etc., anywhere in the world, as well printing in other languages in Middle Eastern countries...The working languages of the
Symposium are English, French and German. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals were due 31 January 2008, using the
Registration Form for the UEAI Congress (of which this Symposium is part), available at [the Web site linked above]. As well as
sending it to the Congress organisers, please copy it to the three Symposium conveners below:
- Ulrich Marzolph (Gttingen) umarzol@gwdg.de
- Geoffrey Roper (London) gjr2@cam.ac.uk
- Sara Yontan (Paris), sara.yontan@bnf.fr
STAGING THE MODERN INTERIOR
15-16 May 2008 Hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston University, London. "The focus of
this year's conference will be the long-standing role of the interior as a stage. Linked to Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the
habitus in which class distinctions are created, and Judith Butlers concept of performativity through which gender is
constructed, the interior can be seen as a place in which identities are formed and performed. This view is reinforced by
literary historians such as Victoria Rosner and Diana Fuss who have stressed the role of interiority in the construction of
modern self-identities. While this definition of the interior can, on one level, be applied to any and every inside space, it
is highlighted in environments created specifically for performance - theatre sets, film sets and television sets among them.
The conference will address the "theatrical" or the "dramatic" interior both in general terms and in relation to specific
spaces created for performances. Abstracts of 300 words, with brief cv should be submitted to (b.martin@kingston.ac.uk) or
to Brenda Martin, Dorich House Museum, Kingston University, Kingston Vale, London SW15 3RN. Deadline for submissions was
Wednesday 2 January 2008.
[VENICE] RUSKIN,
VENICE, AND 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL
25-28 September 2008 Venice : Scuola Grande di San Rocco/Venice International University. "This
international conference is presented by The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University, INCS: Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Department of European and Postcolonial Studies of University of Ca' Foscari
Venice. It will open at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in the afternoon of 25th September 2008. On the 26th
and 27th, all events will be held at the campus of the Venice International University.
"Papers and panels are welcomed from scholars working in any discipline broadly relating to John Ruskin,
Venice or Cultural Travel in relation to the long nineteenth century. Suggested topics include: Cultural
Tourism, Topographies, Empires & Commerce, Romantic Contexts, Architectures, Gendered Places, Religious Cultures,
Paintings, Museums & Exhibitions, Restoration & Conservation, Photographies, Education & Access. Complete
papers of 2,000 to 2,500 words in length will be available in advance at the password protected section of the
conference website, currently under construction. Discussions following several 5 to 7 minute paper presentations
will be in English. Abstracts WERE DUE 31st January 2008 to: Lauren Proctor, Ruskin Centre Administrator
E-mail: l.s.proctor@lancaster.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1524 592450
Limited, preferential accommodation will be available at the
Venice International University's campus on the Isola di San Servolo. Numbers will be strictly limited to 120 delegates, so early booking is recommended.
VISUAL, MATERIAL AND PRINT
CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND
26-27 June 2008 University of Limerick, IRELAND. "Taking a broad view of the nineteenth century, panels are being
constituted from, but not limited to, the following areas: history; art history; English literature; geography; architecture;
politics; folklore; urban and rural development; photographic images; film; Litrocht na Gaeilge; Gaeltacht; cultural
nationalism; poetry; the Irish novel; diaries; letters; newspapers; demography; diaspora; gender; childhood; landscape; maps;
settlement; education; work; religion; travel writing; the stage Irishman; music. The conference organisers welcome proposals
for panels and individual papers. Proposals for roundtable discussions and poster sessions are equally welcome. The
deadline for submissions was 15 February 2008.
WRITINGS ON ART 2: DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK
20-21 June 2008 An international conference to be held at the Institut du Monde
Anglophone, University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. "We invite proposals for papers that examine the modes
by which writing on art approaches the work of art (technical analysis, reference, allusion, the various
tropes resorted to), and the pragmatic implications of such writing (the construction of a context for the
interpretation, evaluation, and reception of works of art). What is at stake in writing on art? How
are works of art to be described? To what ends, and for what readership? Focusing on the various modes of art
writing and on its repercussions on the art work, we shall seek new ways of assessing the impact of literary
and critical practice upon the production of art (in painting, photography, architecture, gardens, etc.) and
upon taste in the English-speaking world.
Proposals in English or French should be sent to: Anne-Pascale Bruneau-Rumsey, University of
Paris X-Nanterre (bruneau@u-paris10.fr) and Laurent Chatel, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
(laurent.chatel@wanadoo.fr) and were due November 1st 2007.
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2-4 November 2009 University of Cordoba (Spain). "The organizers Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom invite prospective speakers to submit a CV and a 250-word abstract on any aspect of this theme, ranging from the symbolic use of color to its practical applications in painting, tilework, and the like...Abstracts must be received by 1 August 2008. Approximately 12 papers will be selected, and successful applicants will be notified by 1 November 2008. Speakers will be expected to present an illustrated 40-minute talk and a publishable text of approximately 5000 words. The sponsors will cover all travel and lodging expenses between the speakers' home and Cordoba and will provide a generous honorarium (upon acceptance of their written text) as well as a copy of the published proceedings. Further information will be available on the Symposium website. /BLOCKQUOTE>
POSTMODERN: A RELEVANT PARADIGM IN THE ARTISTIC FIELD
May 30th-31st, 2008 Auditorium de lINHA [SIC] 2, rue Vivienne - Paris. "Postmodernity, postmodernism, postmodern...[SIC] These terms appeared in the 1960s in architecture and took up in the plastic arts at the end of the 1970s, without being precisely defined. Postmodernity, sometimes understood as a period of disenchantment which bears witness to the crisis of universality, was associated in the artistic field with the dissolution of utopias specific to Avant-garde movements. At the beginning of the 1980s, the "return" of figurative painting through Trans-avant-garde, Neue Wilden or Bad Painting, was then interpreted as the relinquishment of a teleological reading of history that had been spread by Greenbergian modernism. It seemed to coincide with the end of "metanarratives" that Jean-Franois Lyotard described in The Postmodern Condition, first published in French in 1979. The concept of Postmodern, which sprung from that loss of landmarks, has been given numerous and diverse interpretations, thus quickly becoming highly problematic. The questions this concept raises therefore need to be addressed, in a comparatist approach, in order to understand if it was or can still be relevant to describe certain artistic phenomena since the 1960s. Indeed, if the term was soon to be strongly challenged, and even sometimes abandoned, in France - as in Germany and Italy -, things seem to have been different in the United States where the concept of postmodernism is sometimes considered as a genuine paradigm.
"Abstracts were due January 25th to: danesi@free.fr, katia.schneller@free.fr, and
helene.trespeuch@laposte.net.
Organisers: Fabien Danesi (Villa Mdicis, Rome), Katia Schneller (Paris I - Sorbonne) and Hlne Trespeuch (Paris I - Sorbonne
[Tim Buckley]
[PRINTING] SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN THE LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
25-27 SEPTEMBER 2008 Leipzig, Germany. "This Symposium will cover the history of printing and publishing in all Middle Eastern languages and scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Berber, Coptic, Georgian, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Turkish, etc., anywhere in the world, as well printing in other languages in Middle Eastern countries...The working languages of the Symposium are English, French and German. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals were due 31 January 2008, using the Registration Form for the UEAI Congress (of which this Symposium is part), available at [the Web site linked above]. As well as sending it to the Congress organisers, please copy it to the three Symposium conveners below:
- Ulrich Marzolph (Gttingen) umarzol@gwdg.de
- Geoffrey Roper (London) gjr2@cam.ac.uk
- Sara Yontan (Paris), sara.yontan@bnf.fr
STAGING THE MODERN INTERIOR
15-16 May 2008 Hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston University, London. "The focus of this year's conference will be the long-standing role of the interior as a stage. Linked to Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the habitus in which class distinctions are created, and Judith Butlers concept of performativity through which gender is constructed, the interior can be seen as a place in which identities are formed and performed. This view is reinforced by literary historians such as Victoria Rosner and Diana Fuss who have stressed the role of interiority in the construction of modern self-identities. While this definition of the interior can, on one level, be applied to any and every inside space, it is highlighted in environments created specifically for performance - theatre sets, film sets and television sets among them. The conference will address the "theatrical" or the "dramatic" interior both in general terms and in relation to specific spaces created for performances. Abstracts of 300 words, with brief cv should be submitted to (b.martin@kingston.ac.uk) or to Brenda Martin, Dorich House Museum, Kingston University, Kingston Vale, London SW15 3RN. Deadline for submissions was Wednesday 2 January 2008.
[VENICE] RUSKIN, VENICE, AND 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL
25-28 September 2008 Venice : Scuola Grande di San Rocco/Venice International University. "This international conference is presented by The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University, INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Department of European and Postcolonial Studies of University of Ca' Foscari Venice. It will open at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in the afternoon of 25th September 2008. On the 26th and 27th, all events will be held at the campus of the Venice International University.
"Papers and panels are welcomed from scholars working in any discipline broadly relating to John Ruskin, Venice or Cultural Travel in relation to the long nineteenth century. Suggested topics include: Cultural Tourism, Topographies, Empires & Commerce, Romantic Contexts, Architectures, Gendered Places, Religious Cultures, Paintings, Museums & Exhibitions, Restoration & Conservation, Photographies, Education & Access. Complete papers of 2,000 to 2,500 words in length will be available in advance at the password protected section of the conference website, currently under construction. Discussions following several 5 to 7 minute paper presentations will be in English. Abstracts WERE DUE 31st January 2008 to: Lauren Proctor, Ruskin Centre Administrator E-mail: l.s.proctor@lancaster.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1524 592450
Limited, preferential accommodation will be available at the Venice International University's campus on the Isola di San Servolo. Numbers will be strictly limited to 120 delegates, so early booking is recommended.
VISUAL, MATERIAL AND PRINT CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND
26-27 June 2008 University of Limerick, IRELAND. "Taking a broad view of the nineteenth century, panels are being constituted from, but not limited to, the following areas: history; art history; English literature; geography; architecture; politics; folklore; urban and rural development; photographic images; film; Litrocht na Gaeilge; Gaeltacht; cultural nationalism; poetry; the Irish novel; diaries; letters; newspapers; demography; diaspora; gender; childhood; landscape; maps; settlement; education; work; religion; travel writing; the stage Irishman; music. The conference organisers welcome proposals for panels and individual papers. Proposals for roundtable discussions and poster sessions are equally welcome. The deadline for submissions was 15 February 2008.
WRITINGS ON ART 2: DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK
20-21 June 2008 An international conference to be held at the Institut du Monde Anglophone, University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. "We invite proposals for papers that examine the modes by which writing on art approaches the work of art (technical analysis, reference, allusion, the various tropes resorted to), and the pragmatic implications of such writing (the construction of a context for the interpretation, evaluation, and reception of works of art). What is at stake in writing on art? How are works of art to be described? To what ends, and for what readership? Focusing on the various modes of art writing and on its repercussions on the art work, we shall seek new ways of assessing the impact of literary and critical practice upon the production of art (in painting, photography, architecture, gardens, etc.) and upon taste in the English-speaking world.
Proposals in English or French should be sent to: Anne-Pascale Bruneau-Rumsey, University of Paris X-Nanterre (bruneau@u-paris10.fr) and Laurent Chatel, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (laurent.chatel@wanadoo.fr) and were due November 1st 2007.
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